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Terrorism Informatics

Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security

  • Emphasizes the cutting-edge concepts, technologies, and practices that are being developed in terrorism informatics to meet today’s worldwide challenges
  • Each of the 24 chapters in the book has been developed by leading expert on the chapter topic. Each chapter comprehensively reviews of the past and recent research work in the chapter area and many chapters include detailed case studies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems (ISIS, volume 18)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlii
  2. Methodological Issues in Terrorism Research

    1. Domain Mapping of Contemporary Terrorism Research

      • Edna Reid, Hsinchun Chen
      Pages 3-26
    2. Research on Terrorism

      • Andrew Silke
      Pages 27-50
    3. Interviewing Terrorists

      • John Horgan
      Pages 73-99
    4. A Quantitative Analysis of ‘Root Causes of Conflict’

      • Mihaela Bobeica, Jean-Paul Jéral, Teofilo Garcia, Clive Best
      Pages 115-139
    5. Countering Terrorism with Knowledge

      • James O. Ellis III
      Pages 141-155
    6. Identifying and Exploiting Group Learning Patterns for Counterterrorism

      • Horacio R. Trujillo, Brian A. Jackson
      Pages 175-196
    7. Homeland Insecurity

      • Stephen E. Fienberg
      Pages 197-218
  3. Terrorism Informatics to Support Prevention, Detection, and Response

    1. Case Study of Jihad on the Web

      • Hsinchun Chen, Jialun Qin, Edna Reid, Yilu Zhou, Marc Sageman
      Pages 221-235
    2. Studying Global Extremist Organizations' Internet Presence Using the DarkWeb Attribute System

      • Hsinchun Chen, Jialun Qin, Edna Reid, Yilu Zhou
      Pages 237-266
    3. Content Analysis of Jihadi Extremist Groups' Videos

      • Arab Salem, Edna Reid, Hsinchun Chen
      Pages 267-284
    4. Analysis of Affect Intensities in Extremist Group Forums

      • Ahmed Abbasi, Hsinchun Chen
      Pages 285-307
    5. Document Selection for Extracting Entity and Relationship Instances of Terrorist Events

      • Zhen Sun, Ee-Peng Lim, Kuiyu Chang, Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Rohan Kumar Gunaratna
      Pages 309-346
    6. Content-Based Detection of Terrorists Browsing the Web Using an Advanced Terror Detection System (ATDS)

      • Yuval Elovici, Bracha Shapira, Mark Last, Omer Zaafrany, Menahem Friedman, Moti Schneider et al.
      Pages 365-384
    7. Text Mining the Biomedical Literature for Identification of Potential Virus/Bacterium as Bio-Terrorism Weapons

      • Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Daniel Wu, Xiaohua Zhou, Peter Rumm
      Pages 385-406
    8. Leveraging One-Class SVM and Semantic Analysis to Detect Anomalous Content

      • Ozgur Yilmazel, Svetlana Symonenko, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Elizabeth D. Liddy
      Pages 407-424

About this book

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications. The variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are derived from Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Linguistics, Social Sciences, and Public Policy and they involve the collection of a mass of information from multiple sources and in numerous languages.

 

TERRORISM INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security will provide an interdisciplinary and comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of terrorism informatics domain along three basic dimensions: methodological issues in terrorism research; information infusion techniques to support terrorism prevention, detection, and response; and legal, social, privacy, and data confidentiality challenges and approaches.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"The title of this book might imply, at first sight, a US-centric approach to the topic, but in fact, the contributions are not only from the US, but also from Canada … India, and Israel. … A particularly good feature of this book is the back matter included at the end of each chapter: suggested readings, online resources, and discussion questions … . This edited volume should appeal to the growing terrorism informatics research community, graduate students, and readers in the wider community … ." (John Fulcher, ACM Computing Reviews, May, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  • Clarion University, Clarion, USA

    Edna Reid

  • The Analysis Corporation, McLean, USA

    Joshua Sinai

  • University of East London, UK

    Andrew Silke

  • Lauder School of Government & Diplomacy, Israel

    Boaz Ganor

About the editors

The lead author is an editor for the IEEE Int. conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics and the founder of ISI conferences.

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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